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THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
TO HONOR MICHAEL DOUGLAS AT 37th ANNUAL CHAPLIN AWARD GALA |
NEW YORK, March 1, 2010
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Center, announced today that Emmy, Golden Globe and two time Academy
Award winner Michael Douglas will be celebrated at the Film Society's
37th Annual Chaplin Award Gala on the evening of Monday May 24th at
Alice Tully Hall. The limited ticket event will be attended by a host of
notable guests and celebrities from many of Douglas' collaborations and
will feature TV & Film clips commemorating his prolific career as
both an actor and as a producer, culminating in the presentation of The
Chaplin Award.
Ticket information will be available at www.FilmLinc.com with
presenters and guests to be announced in the coming weeks.
Michael Douglas as this year's recipient of The Chaplin Award," said
Ann Tenenbaum, The Film Society of Lincoln Center's Board Chairman.
"Throughout his career, Michael has entertained audiences both in front
of the camera and behind the scenes, and it will be an honor to showcase
his diverse body of work."
The Film Society's Annual Gala began in 1972 and honored
Charles Chaplin – who returned to the US from exile to accept the
commendation. Since then, the award has been renamed for Chaplin, and
has honored many of the film industry's most notable talents, including
Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Laurence Olivier, Federico Fellini,
Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis, James Stewart, Robert Altman, Martin
Scorsese, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep and most recently, Tom Hanks.
"It will be an honor to
add Michael Douglas to our list of past honorees, I am really looking
forward to creating another fabulous evening as we celebrate Michael's
career achievements among friends and fans," said Liz Swig, Gala
co-chair and Film Society Board Member.
An actor with over thirty
years of experience in theatre, film, and television, Douglas produced
his first feature production in 1975 with the Academy Award-winning "One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Since then, as a producer and as an
actor-producer, Michael has proven to have an intuition for choosing
projects that reflect changing trends and public concerns such as, "The
China Syndrome" and "Traffic." Over that past three and a half decades
Douglas has also starred in many box-office
blockbusters and pop
culture favorites, including; "Romancing the Stone", "Fatal Attraction",
"Wall Street", "The War of the Roses", "Disclosure", "The American
President", "The Game", "Wonder Boys", "Don't Say A Word", "The
In-Laws", "The Sentinel", "You, Me & Dupree", "King of California",
and "Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past." Michael has also been a behind the
scenes force for well know hits with stellar casts, like "Flatliners",
John Woo's "Face Off", "John Grisham's The Rainmaker" and "One Night at
McCool's." This year Douglas is returning to his National Board of
Review, Golden Globe, & Academy Award winning role of Gordon Gekko
in "Wall Street 2; Money Never Sleeps", again directed by Oliver Stone
with co-stars Shia Labeouf, Cary Mulligan and Josh Brolin as well as
"Solitary Man" co-directed by Brian Koppelman and David Levien,
co-staring Susan Sarandon, Danny Devito, Mary Louise-Parker, Jenna
Fischer and Jesse Eisenberg.
In 1998 Douglas was
appointed a United Nations Messenger of Peace. He is a strong advocate
of nuclear disarmament and the control of small arms, and he sits on the
Board of Ploughshares Fund. In 2009 Michael joined the project
"Soldiers of Peace," a movie against all wars and for global peace as
well as "Nuclear Tipping Point," about the journey that brought four
prominent architects, Henry Kissinger, Sam Nunn, William Perry and
George Schultz, of America's nuclear deterrence policies, to a startling
conclusion: it's time to eliminate nuclear weapons altogether. Douglas
has also hosted 10 years of the "Michael Douglas and Friends" Celebrity
Golf event that raised over $5 million dollars for the Motion Picture
and Television Fund.
Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Michael is
the son of legendary actor Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill. He attended The
Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut and
received his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in
1968, where he is also the Honorary President of the UCSB Alumni
Association.
Douglas is married to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones and
they share September 25th as a birthday. Michael and Catherine have two
children, Dylan Michael and
Carys Zeta. Michael has an older son, Cameron, from an earlier marriage.
THE
FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
Under the leadership of Mara Manus,
Executive Director, and Richard Peña, Program Director, The Film Society
of Lincoln Center offers the best in international, classic and
cutting-edge independent cinema. The Film Society presents two film
festivals that attract global attention: the New York Film Festival, now
in its 47th year, and New Directors/New Films which, since its founding
in 1972, has been produced in collaboration with MoMA. The Film Society
also publishes the award-winning Film Comment Magazine, and for over
three decades has given an annual award – now named "The Chaplin Award" –
to a major figure in world cinema. Past recipients of this award
include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep
and Tom Hanks. The Film Society receives generous, year-round support
from 42BELOW, American Airlines, GRAFF, Stella Artois, The New York
State Council on the Arts, and The National Endowment for the Arts.
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more information, visit
PAST FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER GALA TRIBUTE HONOREES
2009 Tom
Hanks 1995 Shirley
McLaine 1981 Barbara Stanwyck
2008 Meryl
Streep 1994 Robert
Altman 1980 John Huston
2007 Diane
Keaton 1993 Jack
Lemmon 1979 Bob Hope
2006 Jessica
Lange 1992 Gregory
Peck 1978 George Cukor
2005 Dustin
Hoffman 1991 Audrey
Hepburn 1975 Joanne Woodward
2004 Michael
Caine 1990 James
Stewart & Paul Newman
2003 Susan
Sarandon 1989 Bette
Davis 1974 Alfred Hitchcock
2002 Francis
Ford Coppola 1988 Yves
Montand 1973 Fred Astaire
2001 Jane
Fonda 1987 Alec
Guinness 1972 Charles Chaplin
2000 Al
Pacino 1986 Elizabeth Taylor
1999 Mike
Nichols 1985 Federico Fellini
1998 Martin
Scorsese 1984 Claudette Colbert
1997 Sean
Connery 1983 Laurence Olivier
1996 Clint
Eastwood 1982 Billy Wilder
